Doo de-doo, doo de-doo, doo de-doo-doo-doo.

[Boozy]

So the grocery store has decided to start showing a video in the lobby (about ten feet from where my kiosk is located) showing pictures of the party platters you can get at their deli. There's no voice-over, just high-pitched recorder music that goes...

"Doo de-doo, doo de-doo, doo de-doo-doo-doo"

...ON A CONTINUOUS FIVE-MINUTE LOOP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORK DAY.

I have lost my freakin' mind, people. Three eight hour days in a row, hearing nothing but this horrible music, over and over and over and over again.

I heard it last night in my sleep.

Doo de-doo, doo de-doo, doo de-doo-doo-doo.



Pray for me.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

And when I come in to work tomorrow night and it's All Christmas Muzak All The Time, I'll feel like machine-gunning every speaker in the store before the night's over!

I can only imagine what you have to listen to.

[ShinyGreenApple]

My last Christmas at Wal-Mart, I remember fantasizing about taking a 22 to the overhead TV's that blared a corny song every five minutes.

"And you'll be hoooooooooome for the holiday-yays!"

Maybe it wouldn't have irritated me so much if I hadn't kept saying in my head "Bullshit, if they believe that, why do they put a ban on requests for time off between September and January?"

And then there are seasonal animatronics. I think the one that irritated me most was the Grinch. The longer he was there, the more worn out the sound chip got, and urrrrgh . . . I know the door-greeters would always turn them off, for the sake of their own sanity, only to have a manager walk by and switch it back on.

[gunsage]

You can't win when it comes to music at work. At my first job when I was a stockboy at a grocery store, rarely we would have something good playing. But what REALLY irritated me was when something decent WAS playing it might get through half the song when suddenly, BOOP, in-store ad! And did it return to the song? Nope! Off to suck-track #10. Lovely.

At my last job, I loaded up my PSP with MP3s and played the DS. Here, though, I load up songs on my projectplaylist.org account and play them on my headphones after lunch...while playing my DS. Yeah, tier 3 work is ALLL good.

"And you'll be hoooooooooome for the holiday-yays!"

"Yeah, no, I'll be IN THE home for the holidays if this crap keeps up."

[crazylegs]

Never has Boozys avatar seemed more appropriate...

[mymaskofsanity]

I couldn't stand working somewhere holiday music blared all the time.

The only job I had where music was on in the store was a clothing store.

That sold "urban" clothing , that means hip hop for all you yuppies = P

And I love hip hop. The only time christmas music was on was run dmc and other classic hip hop christmas music.

Many of our customers actually mentioned how nice it was to NOT hear jingle bells while trapped in the mall.

After being an associate I took over shipping and recieving which then allowed me to park my boom box in the back and listen to whatever I pleased for countless hours stocking shoes.

= P sorry to rub it in lol

[worddork]

Vegie tales

For away I worked at one of those kiosks in the middle of a mall that sold calendars, right next to us was a kiosks that sold "Vegie Tales" CDs that parents come put their child's name in like half of the songs. I swear after hearing the stupid theme song for six hours every day for a week I was about ready to blow their damned stereo up.

"If you like to talk to tomatoes,
If a pear can make you smile.
If you like to waltz with potatoes
Up and down the produce aisle.
Do we have a show for you."

Just thought I would share my hell with the rest of you.

[Shabo]

There used to be music at the pet store that I worked at that was like flute music playing in a really bad "rap"-esque song. There were no words, just a quick beat with a lot of drum... but the flute and the background music were in two different tempos! That song haunted me. I could ignore the rest of the crap that was played there, but when that song came on, I always could hear it. Drove me nuts.

[Becks]

"And you'll be hoooooooooome for the holiday-yays!"

Maybe it wouldn't have irritated me so much if I hadn't kept saying in my head "Bullshit, if they believe that, why do they put a ban on requests for time off between September and January?"

Or as I mutter, "Sure, that's all well and good for people who were born and raised here, but what about those of us who are hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from our families?"

[Catwoman2965]

Not music, but how about those stores that have that "bing bong" beep that sounds EVERY TIME someone enters or exits the store! that would drive me absolutely insane if i had to listen to it all day! i get sick of it just shopping!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Not music, but how about those stores that have that "bing bong" beep that sounds EVERY TIME someone enters or exits the store! that would drive me absolutely insane if i had to listen to it all day! i get sick of it just shopping!

That reminds me I need to go ahead and remove that damn anti-theft box off the shelf in the toothpaste section, as the Crest Premium Whitestrips were recently moved to underneath the kiosk (customers have to get a card to carry to the register for the item, as it's high theft.)

It's one of those clear plastic holders where you pull the front toward you and put the product in and it makes the "Bing Bong" sound (it's supposed to deter shoplifters.)

But yep, first thing I noticed when I got to work today . . . Christmas musc on the Musak, or Mu-Suks.

Luckily though it's not continuous and it'll switch to more of the usual adult contemporary/soft rock music that usually plays, the back for a couple more Christmas tunes.

And if I could find that moron who wrote that sappy "On Christmas Morning" song, I'll beat him senseless with the salmon.

And the person who recorded it. And their little dog too . . .

[Gaudemeus]

I'm gonna sing the doo song now! DOO-DEE-DOO-DOO-DOO-DEE-DOO *Loop endlessly for all eternity*

[gunsage]

For some reason, the visualization of the song...almost looks like the Hamster Dance lyrics.

[CancelMyService]

My first thought was this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=todQt...eature=related

[Fungus]

Back in my pizza days, we had something on the door that went "Thank You Thank you!" every time someone opened or closed the door. In addition to having kids run by and purposely make it go off, we had people asking "I bet that must make you crazy!" Yes, it did, but not as bad as people asking about it! Our manager disconnected the batteries in it, but a couple of months later our Market director came in and asked why it didn't work. We told him we didn't know, so he took it apart and said, "Oh, the battery got loose (it was a 9 volt) and reconnected it.

Our manager was ticked when he came to work and it was back on. The next day, it didn't work anymore. He wouldn't tell me why, but strongly hinted to me that someone had sprayed degreaser in it until it wouldn't say "Thank you Thank you" anymore!

Strangely, we were the only store around that had one of these things.